CATALOGUE OF PLANTS, G9 



L. Inundatum, tt. Wet, sterile grounds. 



L. alopecuroides, !;. Damp fields and swamps, common. 



L. dendroideum, Michx. Shady woods, rare. 



Li. idavatum, U Woods, Freehold. 



L». Carolinianum, L. Borders of swamps, common. 



L. oomplanatnm, L. Damp, open woods, neglected fields, rare. 



Selaginella, Beany., Spreng. 



S. apus, Spreng. Point pleasant, 0., rare. 



Isoetes, L. (Quillwort.) 



I. echinospora, Durieu. Mor. (Porter.) 

 Var. Braunii. Tom's River, O. (Porter.) 



CATALOGUE OF MARINE ALG^l. 



Collected on the coast of Egg Harbor, at and near Beesley's Point, in 

 Cape May County, 



By Samuel Ashmead, Esq., 



and published in the Geological Report of Cape May County. 



Series 1. MELANOSPERMEJE. 

 Fucus, L. 



F. vesiculosus, L. Very common between tide marks, on the shores 

 of the Bays and the thoroughfares ; not unfrequently attached to sods by 

 a root penetrating several inches into the soil, throwing off numerous 

 lateral shoots, having the appearance of undeveloped fronds, forming a 

 strong hold-fast, and affording an interesting illustration of the modifica- 

 tion of a discoid root, where local circumstances are unfavorable to Buch 

 expansions. It is, however, more frequently found adhering by a coni- 

 cal disc to mussels | V licatida), whirh, at high water, unable to 

 •In- buoyancy of the full-grown plant with its inflated vesicles, is 

 by degrees, wrested from its place of growth and cast upon the Bhore 

 ah, wheno it, together with other marine plant.-, i 

 way by the inhabitants for manure. 



Stilophora, J. Ag. 



S. rhi/.o I Bather rare; on old shells, etc., near low-water 



mark. \irh I obtain* d an 



growth, and di with wart-like fructification. 



